Lainey Wilson Had the Best of Both Worlds With Her First Job

Lainey Wilson Had the Best of Both Worlds With Her First Job

Posted on April 22, 2021

These days Lainey Wilson is on country radio singing “Things A Man Oughta Know” — but we have something you oughta know about Lainey…

When she was younger her first music job was working as a “Hannah Montana” impersonator.

That’s right, the character made famous by Miley Cyrus!

Lainey shares the story, “I impersonated ‘Hannah Montana’ for 5 years. It was like my childhood, high school gig. I did it from 8th grade to 12th grade. I did birthday parties, fairs, festivals…the last place I played was St. Jude. Every now and then Lainey Wilson might open the show for Hannah Montana. Sometimes they’d be like ‘Who’s Lainey?’ and ‘Nah, we just asked for Hannah.” (laugh)

Lainey has left ‘Hannah Montana’ behind and now she’s out in front singing her own music, like her current single at country radio, “Things A Man Oughta Know.”

Photo Courtesy of BBR Music Group

Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley Hit the Road to Jimmy Kimmel Live

Jimmie Allen & Brad Paisley Hit the Road to Jimmy Kimmel Live

Posted on April 22, 2021

After their appearance on the ACM Awards singing their new song “Freedom Was A Highway,” New ACM Male Artist of the Year Jimmie Allen and Brad Paisley headed to Jimmy Kimmel Live this week.

Check out their performance here…

Jimmie Allen Photo Credit: John Shearer

Brad Paisley Photo Credit: Jeff Lipsky

Matt Stell & Chris Bandi Give Happy Gilmore a Run For His Money

Matt Stell & Chris Bandi Give Happy Gilmore a Run For His Money

Posted on April 21, 2021

What do two country music making friends do on their day off — they hit the links of course!

While we don’t think we’ll be seeing Matt Stell or Chris Bandi on the GPA tour anytime soon, we are glad they took a camera guy out with them on their latest Golf outing.

Watch their adventures on the golf course here…

Of course while their golf game might need a little help, their music making game is spot on…Check out the music video for Matt Stell’s “That Ain’t Me No More”…

Here’s Chris Bandi with the stripped down music video for “Would Have Loved Her”

Matt Stell Photo Credit: Duston Haney

Chris Bandi Photo Credit: Midtown Motion

Steve Wariner Celebrates 23 Years of Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down

Steve Wariner Celebrates 23 Years of Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down

Posted on April 21, 2021

Steve Wariner is celebrating the 23rd Anniversary of his album Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down.

He reflects on what the project meant to him, “An important album for me…this was my very first Capitol album, the very first album that I produced totally by myself…other than No More Mr. Nice Guy, my guitar record. ‘Holes In The Floor Of Heaven’ was track number 2, so, and I remember doing the song ‘Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down’…Garth (Brooks) came in and played on it and sang. Really tremendous this is a big album for me.”

One of the biggest hits from Burnin’ The Roadhouse Down was “Holes In The Floor Of Heaven” — Listen to it here…

You can check out the title track to the album featuring Garth Brooks here…

Photo Courtesy of Steve Wariner

Carrie Underwood Keeps Fans AFlutter A Little Bit Longer

Carrie Underwood Keeps Fans AFlutter A Little Bit Longer

Posted on April 21, 2021

Carrie Underwood recently released her album My Savior, but she also teased that something new was dropping today…

Originally she posted “I’m all aflutter with something exciting coming April 21!”

but now she’s added, “*UPDATE* Looks like we have to keep those butterflies fluttering a little longer… more to come…”

While fans wait to see what Carrie has to set free, they can checkout some of her recent Award Show performances.

People are still raving about the medley of songs from her My Savior album that she sang with Cece Winins on the 56th ACM Awards — check out it out here..

Carrie also appeared at the 2021 Latin American Music Awards to perform “Tears of Gold” with David Bisbal…watch their performance here…

Photo Credit: Jeremy Cowart

Gabby Barrett Makes It a Good One With Back To Back Weeks At Number-1

Gabby Barrett Makes It a Good One With Back To Back Weeks At Number-1

Posted on April 21, 2021

Congrats to Gabby Barrett for having the number-1 spot on the country music airplay chart for the second week in a row.

This past weekend, she and her husband Cade Foehner – who was also the inspiration behind Gabby writing “The Good Ones” – performed the number-1 song on the ACM Awards.

With everything happening in her life now – being named ACM New Female Artist of the Year, her second number-1 and motherhood — Gabby says “Life has been amazing…crazy…all the things.”

Of course she also joked about appearing at the Awards Show Sunday night, “I’m normally in bed right now, this is way past my bed time, but this is well worth it!”

While she’s loving being at home with her daughter, Gabby is also excited about her plans for later this year, “I’ve announced that I’m going to be going on tour this year with Thomas Rhett, so I’m excited for that, excited to get back out on the road…it’s good.”

Check out Gabby Barrett singing “The Good Ones” on the 56th Annual ACM Awards right here…

Photo Credit: Robby Klein

Thomas Rhett’s New Song Gets the Stamp of Approval from Eric Church

Thomas Rhett’s New Song Gets the Stamp of Approval from Eric Church

Posted on April 21, 2021

Thomas Rhett‘s Country Again – Side A comes out April 30th, and it already contains a number-1 hit, with “What’s Your Country Song.”

Now he’s released the title track, and it name drops a musical hero of Thomas’…Eric Church.

Eric chimed in on what he thought of the song — Thomas shares the text conversation the two had, “There’s obviously a line, about me and my buddies cranking Eric Church to 10, and he texted me and said ‘Hey man, I just wanted to say “Country Again” is great. Hope you and the family are doing well.’ And I said ‘Thanks a lot, it means a ton. Hope you don’t mind that I name dropped you.’ and he said ‘I’m honored.’ And that was full circle to me because he’s one of the biggest reasons, besides Merle Haggard, that I wanted to write songs in the first place. I remember being 16 years old and just being like ‘is there anyone better than Eric Church’ and I was the dude that my favorite songs were the b-sides or the album cuts, so, he’s always been somebody I looked up to as a songwriter. So, to have him kind of sign off on a song was very special to me.”

Thomas recently performed both songs, “What’s Your Country Song” and “Country Again” on the ACM Awards…

Photo Courtesy of Valory Music Co

LANCO Wants to Have a Relationship With Their Fans

LANCO Wants to Have a Relationship With Their Fans

Posted on April 21, 2021

Country music artists and their fans have always had a special relationship.

The guys in LANCO know what it’s like to have dedicated fans that are there from the start…but as lead singer Brandon Lancaster says, “I think from day one we never really set out to have fans, we more just thought of having these people that come to our shows that we connect with, that we have a relationship with, so, that’s been really cool.”

Brandon adds, “It’s really cool when you see some of the same faces at different shows because you do have a relationship with them you know.”

Brandon says that it’s great to have people as invested in their career as the guys in the band are, “We understand our music obviously we create our music, but if there’s anyone that understands our music as much as we do it’s the people that you see in multiple times and listen to a lot and have really connected to it enough to see multiple shows…so that’s really fun for us because it’s a, there’s just a loyalty there, and it feels like we have a relationship with that person.”

LANCO fans can’t wait to see the band on the road again so they can see this one live…check out the music video for “Near Mrs.”

Photo Courtesy of Sony Music Nashville

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